Best Food Apps for iPhone and Android

For: iPhone
Price: Free

It's well worth spending a few minutes plugging your favorite restaurants into this app. Ness analyzes the data to tailor suggestions to your tastes. You can select cuisine type, casual or upscale, and weed out restaurants you've already visited to keep your eating exciting. Click on any of the recommendation and it gives you full contact info, access to their online menu (if available), and a direct link to OpenTable if you want to make a reservation.

likeness.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

Dining out doesn't have to break the budget with Savored, an app that finds you discounts at local restaurants. Currently in 10 major cities, Savored works with restaurant to fill their tables and make a night out within your budget. Just search for restaurants and the app will show you what reservation times are available and at what discount. It's that simple.

savored.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

It's an unfortunate fact that not all fishing is eco-friendly. If you care about the ocean, but don't want to give up your otoro, turn to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's app, which helps you find more sustainable options for seafood and sushi. Their social function, Project FishMap, lets you and others add to a collective map of locations where sustainable seafood has been spotted.

montereybayaquarium.org

For: iPhone
Price: Free (optional $1.99 in-app upgrade)

Searching for recipes online is common practice these days, but can still lead to some muddling over measurements. This app clears up the confusion with a simple conversion dial. Just select the measurement you see in a recipe, set what measurement you want it to convert to and voila! Your new measurement autofills.

kitchendial.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

Most of us are in a constant quest to get healthier, one small step at a time. Fooducate can help with that process by grading your current food, showing you what's in the product, and offering healthier alternatives. For digital diet trackers, calories and exercise can be recorded to get a clearer picture of your health. The biggest boon of this app is demystifying the nutrition panels and misleading labeling on all the products you think you know.

fooducate.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

Keep your eyes out for this one, happy hour lovers. Though it's only in select Midwestern cities right now, HappyHour is worth waiting for. A user-friendly design lets you quickly and easily search for happy hour deals by day, type, time, and area with a database that's accessible even when you're offline so you're never at a loss for after-work unwinding.

moveablebytes.com

For: iPhone
Price: $7.99

This app may come with a hefty price tag, but it's well worth the money. It has a huge index of gluten-free products and brands (27,900 and 990, respectively) that will help save you time and a stomach ache. If you find something that isn't listed, you can add it for later reference, and all its features are available without an Internet connection.

midlifecrisisapps.com

For: iPhone
Price: $1.99

Foreign menus can throw a wrench into your dining; even foodies have gaps in their menu fluency when it comes to French fare. Bon Appetit aims to solve that problem and prevent any possible embarrassment by offering a food phrase dictionary. Currently it provides translations among four languages (English, French, German, and Dutch). From ordering to allergies, this app is your dinnertime translator.

For: iPhone
Price: Free

Aimless bar crawls, be gone! Moonshine lets you know what's open near you so you don't have to stumble too far. It gives you walking time to your next drinking destination and a countdown to their closing time so you can defeat last call and carry on your party elsewhere. Of course, they encourage you to use the app responsibly.

moonshineapp.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

Think of this app as your personal (and ever-present) sommelier. Use it to tailor your food to your wine, or vice-versa, at restaurants, at home, even in stores. You can scan bottle labels for instant pairing info and tasting notes to help you decide if it's the wine you really want to take home.

hellovino.com

For: iPhone
Price: Free

There are plenty of restaurants recommendation apps out there, but Find. Eat. Drink. aggregates recommendations from your favorite professionals. You can read profiles of bartenders, sommeliers, and chefs, or simply search for your favorites and see what venues they recommend. It's constantly being updated, so you'll never be bored (or hungry)!

findeatdrink.com

For: iPhone
Price: $1.99

Grab this app, even though it's in its early phases. Yes, you have to scroll through restaurant lists rather than sorting alphabetically, but the rewards are worth the effort. Look up vegan items at a host of chain restaurants so you can eat out on a whim with friends rather than worrying about what you'll eat. A list of vegan-friendly grocery items is included and being built up with each update.

veganxpress.com

For: iPhone
Price: Free

It's sleek, simple, and saves restaurant info like its now antiquated namesake. You can save your favorite restaurants and those you want to visit, label them with your own tags, and view them in map or list format. In list form, the app categorizes the venues alphabetically, dividing them by neighborhood for easy reference. No bells and whistles here, just a quick, efficient, and beautiful app.

matchbook.co

For: iPhone
Price: $2.99

For those of you who are seriously into home brew (professionals and passionate home-brewers alike), there's a new way to track your ideal cup of coffee. Bloom Coffee Timer has preset timers for every brewing method that you can edit and save when you find the right combination to please your palate. You can share your parameters with friends if you know someone who has similar java tastes. The simple design makes it ideal for groggy mornings.

bloomapp.com

For: iPhone (coming soon to Android)
Price: Free

Now you can Instagram your food for a good cause! Look up Feedie-friendly restaurants in your area, snap a picture of your food, share it on social media, and your meal will earn a donation for The Lunchbox Fund. The donations fund meals for disadvantaged children in South Africa. With over 80 participating locations, Feedie ensures you'll never get bored with giving back.

wethefeedies.com

For: iPhone
Price: $1.99

It's not as bright and flashy as other apps, but Harvest stands to save you a lot of money. Based on your location, the app will look up seasonal produce in your area, tell you how to buy the best produce, and how to store it so it doesn't spoil in the fridge. When data is available, pesticide residue is ranked from low to high so you know when to upgrade to organic.

harvest-app.com

For: iPhone and Android
Price: Free

Following different food trucks on Twitter can get tiring, so Cart Compass tracks them all in a map-based app. You can search for food carts by cuisine, check out the current location of your favorite, or look at the map to see what's nearby on your lunchtime break. This sleek app is only for Portland, Oregon, so if you live outside that area, you'll have to go hunting for another.

cartcompass.com